Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza
“Like golden mist, the west lights up
The window. The diligent manuscript
Awaits, already laden with infinity.
Someone is building God in the twilight.
A man engenders God. He is a Jew
Of sad eyes and citrine skin.
Time carries him as the river carries
A leaf in the downstream water.
No matter. The enchanted one insists
And shapes God with delicate geometry.
Since his illness, since his birth,
He goes on constructing God with the
Word.
The mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be
loved.”
– Jorge Luis Borges translated by Yirmiyahu Yovel
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